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With a wind speed of up to 88 kilometres per hour, the cyclone hit the Barisal-Chittagong region yesterday, impacting the entire country. Most places witnessed rain and thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty and squally wind.

A 70-year-old Buddhist monk is brutally hacked to
death inside a remote monastery in Bangladesh, with police
saying the incident bore the hallmark of previous killings of
secular activists, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the
Muslim-majority nation.

Amitabh Kant spoke at the launch a World Bank report titled 'Stitches to Riches? Apparel Employment, Trade and Economic Development in South Asia', which estimates that rising wages in China present a huge opportunity to the apparel sector in India, with possibility of creating up to 1.2 million jobs in the country.

In a BSE filing, RPP Infra Projects Ltd said "it has entered into a consortium agreement with Siemens Ltd, India for submitting a joint bid to Power Grid Company of Bangladesh in respect of design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 400 KV, 230 KV and 132 KV substations."

The visit from April 17-19 "is aimed at following up on the ambitious agenda set between India and Bangladesh during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in June last year," an official statement said here.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was apprised about the MoU signed between India and Bangladesh in September, 2011 on bilateral cooperation in the field of fisheries and aquaculture and allied activities, according to an official statement.

"What happened in Bangladesh is certainly a source of concern for all of us, and we have taken some measures and are continuing to understand better what actually happened so that we can further our measures," Rajan told reporters.

Prime Minister's press secretary Ihsanul Karim said Rahman met Hasina at her office in the morning and handed over his resignation, seven years after he was appointed as the Governor of Bangladesh Bank.

The deal, signed on Wednesday in Dhaka, came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of the new credit line to Bangladesh during his Dhaka visit in June last year. It follows India's USD 1 billion in assistance provided to Bangladesh in 2011 for infrastructure development.

Axiata Group Berhad and Airtel today signed a definitive agreement to merge their respective telecom subsidiaries -- Robi Axiata Ltd and Airtel Bangladesh Ltd -- in Bangladesh, Airtel said in a statement.

A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved rehabilitation package and upgradation of infrastructure of former Bangladeshi enclaves in Cooch Behar district after transfer of enclaves between India and Bangladesh, an official release said.

"Bangladesh and India would ink an agreement for dispatch of 100 MW power from Palatana project on November 27 in Delhi. It (the agreement) would also decide about the tariff rate of power," Technical Director of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL), M K Chowdhury said.

Chetia, who was in Bangladesh since his arrest by the neighbouring country's police in 1997, was handed over to India at the personal intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and through active involvement of NSA Ajit Doval.